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Step 2 Pepare the Headshell.

First get rid of the pick-up and stylus.
Now get a hole into the head shell. The hole will hold the tube and the teflon-nib of the desoldering pump. So keep the dimensions of this and the hole in mind. In my case it was very hard to drill the hole into the headshell. So I melted it in with the hot soldering gun. Be careful with this. It stinks and you should do this not in your room or at least open the windows melted plastic is not very healthy - not at all.

Warm up one end of the tube, so you can easy put in the nib of the desoldering pump. When you have finished this put the tube with the Teflon nib through the hole in the head shell and fix it, if it isn't solid enough with a few drops of super glue - later you can add some silicone rubber.

After the glue hardened follow the pickup to the end of the turntable with the tube and attach the tube with cable ties to the pickup. But avoid squeezing the tube to tight, after all the liquid and the thread should go through the tube.

Maybe you can attach a shrinking tube to the Teflon nib or you can just use a shrinking tube as a nib. This would maybe a soft nib to protect the record. But in theory the nib will not touch the record because of the thread. The thread will function as a spacer between nib and record and will also physically dissolve dirt on the record while the liquid will solute the chemical way.